CVE-2019-19048

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CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

4%p89

Published

Nov 18, 2019 (Nov 18, 2019)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

A memory leak in the crypto_reportstat() function in drivers/virt/vboxguest/vboxguest_utils.c in the Linux kernel before 5.3.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering copy_form_user() failures, aka CID-e0b0cb938864.

Vendors: linux canonical
Products: linux kernel, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-401
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (3.8%)

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